Vietnam Primer - Roll Call

Vietnam Primer

By Roll Call Staff

Posted November 7, 2007 at 6:24pm

Then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara points to a map of Laos and Vietnam as he updates reporters during an April 26, 1965, press conference at the Pentagon. The conference came as then-President Lyndon Johnson was starting to significantly increase the number of U.S. ground forces in Vietnam.

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